Naomi Kizhner, an Israeli student, designs jewelry that generates electricity from your veins. Yes, the jewelry is embedded into your veins and uses your body's blood flow as well as your general movement in order to spin a wheel in the jewelry and generate electricity. When I first heard of this I thought it was the plot synopsis of a new movie idea of some future distopian society where we are so desperate for energy that we need to use our own body to find electricity for electronics. Then I thought about how this was similar to modern day. Society now-a-days is so reliant on technology. How many people does one see on a daily basis that doesn't have their phone connected to their hip? How many people don't own a computer, or a television? Nearly none. Naomi's jewelry is also helping to show the lengths that our society goes in order to stay connected; to feed our addiction.
Naomi has created three items as of right now which include one called the blinker, that sits on the bridge of your nose and generates energy from your eyes opening and closing, and one that is inserted into your arm (based off of pictures shown) and will be connected by two spikes from the jewelry piece that will allow blood to flow into the device and generate electricity.
Naomi says that her project was created from the idea that the world would have depleting resources and that humans would have to find other means of producing electricity which may include using our own bodies. Would society ever have to use our bodies to produce energy? Is it a smart idea of invasive? Or is it just down right creepy?
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